Looking at Amazon (U.S.) now, I am seeing all four of the Mission Gamma novels at $0.99.
Star Trek Into Darkness novelization, too.
— David Young
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Looking at Amazon (U.S.) now, I am seeing all four of the Mission Gamma novels at $0.99.
Star Trek Into Darkness novelization, too.
— David Young
Amazon and Kobo Canada are currently showing Into Darkness, and all of the Mission Gamma books except for This Gray Spirit!
Hopefully that gets straightened out when the rest of the May sales are set up (assuming that's not all of them...)It’s been nearly 15 years since I gave up on This Grey Spirit in the Haunted Seas omnibus. Unfortunately, I found it to be just a painfully dull slog. I honestly can’t say I’ve done that before or since with a book, and have tried a few times to reengage with it and just couldn’t.
My first relaunch book was Warpath, and I went forward from there as backfilling the relaunch was difficult, as at the time had to really wait for the omnibuses as ebooks weren’t quite yet a thing yet. I haven’t gone past This Grey Spirit in my relaunch catch-up (pretty sure I have everything in ebooks).
This Grey Spirit did tap into a lot of my frustrations with the later books of the DS9 relaunch post Typhon Pact, particularly the emphasis of original characters at the expense of the legacy characters. The more successful novels in the line balanced the new characters development with the legacy characters, particularly how the TV characters reacted to the new comers and the new relationships. (Ex. Why bring O’Brien back and then sideline him?).
My first relaunch book was Warpath, and I went forward from there as backfilling the relaunch was difficult, as at the time had to really wait for the omnibuses as ebooks weren’t quite yet a thing yet. I haven’t gone past This Grey Spirit in my relaunch catch-up (pretty sure I have everything in ebooks).
This Grey Spirit did tap into a lot of my frustrations with the later books of the DS9 relaunch post Typhon Pact, particularly the emphasis of original characters at the expense of the legacy characters. The more successful novels in the line balanced the new characters development with the legacy characters, particularly how the TV characters reacted to the new comers and the new relationships. (Ex. Why bring O’Brien back and then sideline him?).
Amazon and Kobo Canada are currently showing Into Darkness, and all of the Mission Gamma books except for This Gray Spirit!
I was able to get all of the above (including This Gray Spirit) for $0.99 from the U.S. Amazon site last night.
— David Young
Yay! I still didn’t have Ex Machina or The Buried Age in Kindle (or in paper, for those two).
It’s funny. I did a spreadsheet this weekend (or, rather, used someone else’s that I found online) and retabulated how many of the Star Trek novels, novellas, and short story collections since Pocket Books #1 (Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization) onwards in both paper and in Kindle.
As of today (not including the two above that I still need to buy), I have 179 in Kindle. Which sounds like a lot. But when you put that up against the 748 total novels/novellas/story collections released so far and it’s still only 24%.
My copies in paper (paperbacks and hardbacks) is higher because I used to collect them and buy them every month until around 2004 or so. My LibraryThing records show that I have 442 novels/novellas/collections in print (59%).
(This is skewed a bit because each of the SCE novellas has its own line on the spreadsheet, even though they did not, obviously, each get their own separate print edition, just most of them collected in however many print omnibus editions they made.)
(It drives me crazy about my print copies. There are several around 2002 to 2004 that I just know I bought back then (like Keith DeCandido’s The Brave and the Bold Book 1) that are now nowhere to be found. Don’t you just hate it when that happens???)
— David Young
Mission Gamma is part of the Deep Space Nine relaunch, which is part of the larger novelverse that ended with Coda.
Some new TREK EBOOKS I just found on Amazon US just now all for .99 cents.
It might be for June 2023 TREK EBOOK DEALS released early. June’s Trek deals end on July 3rd, 2023.
May’s Deals ended June 4th..
Official Trek webpage updated:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-ebook-deals
Star Trek Discovery Dead Endless
Star Trek: Destiny #1: Gods of Night
Star Trek: Destiny #2: Mere Mortals
Star Trek: Destiny #3: Lost Souls
The Higher Frontier (Star Trek: The Original Series)
No Time Like the Past (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Revenant (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Stargazer: Oblivion
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Expanse
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #1: Cardassia and Andor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #2: Trill and Bajor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #3: The Dominion and Ferenginark
That might be all for now. I will update the post if more ebooks become available and the official webpage comes up.
Happy Belated Memorial Day all on the forums, And I just wanted to give a sincere thank you and gratitude to anyone who has served in the military as well. Thank you for our continued freedoms, and protection of liberty.
All the best to all,
-Koric
It might be for June 2023 TREK EBOOK DEALS released early. June’s Trek deals end on July 3rd, 2023.
May’s Deals ended June 4th..
Official Trek webpage updated:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-ebook-deals
Star Trek Discovery Dead Endless
Star Trek: Destiny #1: Gods of Night
Star Trek: Destiny #2: Mere Mortals
Star Trek: Destiny #3: Lost Souls
The Higher Frontier (Star Trek: The Original Series)
No Time Like the Past (Star Trek: The Original Series)
Revenant (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Stargazer: Oblivion
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Expanse
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #1: Cardassia and Andor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #2: Trill and Bajor
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worlds of Deep Space Nine #3: The Dominion and Ferenginark
That might be all for now. I will update the post if more ebooks become available and the official webpage comes up.
Happy Belated Memorial Day all on the forums, And I just wanted to give a sincere thank you and gratitude to anyone who has served in the military as well. Thank you for our continued freedoms, and protection of liberty.
All the best to all,
-Koric
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Not much new there. I think all of them have been on sale recently. Over here in the UK we've not been getting the full range of sale books the US has. However, I will say that quite a few of those listed are already available already.
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/...Book/_/N-i8fZm2sq/Ne-m2so/Ntt-Star+trek?Nao=0
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/...Book/_/N-i8fZm2sq/Ne-m2so/Ntt-Star+trek?Nao=0
I don't recall any of the MJF Stargazer books being a part of the monthly sales. At least if they were I missed them.
Looks like I picked up the six Stargazer books as part of the monthly sale all the way back in June 2018.
Hey everyone...
My thanks to @youngtrek for THE OFFICIAL EBOOK COUNT AT 748 novels/novellas/collections.
I had speculated a number close to that, but now we have a good count number:
From my original post:
My current count of Star Trek ebooks on Kindle stands at 431 as of January 2023.
My newest current count for Star Trek ebooks right now is 436. The last 6 months have been rough for me 4 ebooks out of 60 or 70 offered in the monthly sales which have been a lot of repeats, and I recently purchased the new Star Trek Strange New Worlds novel too.
I am hoping for other rare series NEVER been put on sale like A TIME TO, or other really rare Trek ebooks. I am hoping Vulcan Forge eventually becomes available on sale soon.
Like all of you I have been following the Trek ebook sales since they began in March of 2016. I feel like I missed some though. Here’s to hoping MORE FUTURE Trek ebook sales, and new releases too.
I believe the current count for total Trek ebooks stand at between 750 and 800 maybe? I might be off, but who knows?
-Koric
My thanks to @youngtrek for THE OFFICIAL EBOOK COUNT AT 748 novels/novellas/collections.
I had speculated a number close to that, but now we have a good count number:
From my original post:
My current count of Star Trek ebooks on Kindle stands at 431 as of January 2023.
My newest current count for Star Trek ebooks right now is 436. The last 6 months have been rough for me 4 ebooks out of 60 or 70 offered in the monthly sales which have been a lot of repeats, and I recently purchased the new Star Trek Strange New Worlds novel too.
I am hoping for other rare series NEVER been put on sale like A TIME TO, or other really rare Trek ebooks. I am hoping Vulcan Forge eventually becomes available on sale soon.
Like all of you I have been following the Trek ebook sales since they began in March of 2016. I feel like I missed some though. Here’s to hoping MORE FUTURE Trek ebook sales, and new releases too.
I believe the current count for total Trek ebooks stand at between 750 and 800 maybe? I might be off, but who knows?
-Koric
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Ok, so, first off, I just bought nine more Kindle ebooks in this (June 2023) $0.99 sale group. (The only ones I already had were Dead Endless, No Time Like the Past, and Revenant.)
Now, after adding these to my spreadsheet, I further tinkered with the data there, primarily putting “N/A”s by all of the individual enovellas in my “Print Copies” column, adding in the print omnibus editions for just the ones that put enovellas in print (I didn’t add listings for the omnibus editions that collected together already in print novels like Odyssey or Twist of Fate), and putting “N/A”s also in the ebooks column for those that have never been released in ebook format (mainly nearly all of the young adult novels but also the first three Shatnerverse novels (The Ashes of Eden, The Return, Avenger), Enterprise: The First Adventure, Probe, Cybersong, and both the 1997 Starfleet Academy computer game and Day of Honor tv episode novelizations. (I may have missed a few but I think that’s just about all of them.)
This tinkering has resulted in new total numbers (so I want to update them here for the record, especially after Koric just deemed my last figure of Star Trek ebooks as “the official count”. Please, no. “Unofficial”, at best. And still not exactly correct, I’m sure.
Initial qualifying info: Star Trek novels in print figures does not include Bantam or Ballantine releases (so none of the Blish or Foster novelizations and none of the pre Pocket Books Bantam novels), nor does it include nonfiction books or children’s books aside from the “Minstrel” Starfleet Academy and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine young adult novels from 1993 to 1998. It does include the three Prometheus novels and the “Autobiography of…” (Kirk, Spock, Picard, Janeway) fiction books. (My base overall list was one I coopted from the internet and whoever made it, this is what was already there.) And, again, it does not include the individual enovellas, but it does include the print omnibus versions of (only) those.
My ebooks figures includes everything starting with Pocket Books (again, no Bantams or Ballantines), including the Prometheus and “Autobiography” books, and also includes the SCE/COE omnibuses (and also the Mere Anarchy omnibus) because those are available also in ebook. (But, again, not ebooks of other omnibuses like Odyssey, Twist of Fate, etc.)
So, my revised tallies:
I now have 431 out of 659 print Star Trek novels/fiction books (from the Pocket Books start onwards), which is 65%.
I now have 190 out of 727 Kindle ebook Star Trek novels/novellas/fiction books, which is 26%.
By my best calculations, I am currently at 199 out of 749 Star Trek novels or novellas that I do not have in either print or Kindle ebook format, which is 27%. (I included in this tally some novels that I know I bough back in 2004 to 2007, some I even have Amazon and other retailer records of having bought back then, but that have somehow disappeared into the void and are currently MIA. If I find those, I’ll make the appropriate updates.)
Just for funsies, here are the ten (make that eleven, since it gets me back to the start of 2017) most recent novels (not including The High Country and Somewhere to Belong because those two just came out) that I need ebooks of still (so that haven’t been in any recent monthly sales): To Lose the Earth (VOY) (2020), The Unsettling Stars (Kelvin) (2020), Architects of Infinity (VOY) (2018), Gamma: Original Sin (DS9) (2017), Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference (ENT) (2017), Engima Tales (DS9) (2017), Hearts and Minds (TNG) (2017), Section 31: Control (2017), The Long Mirage (DS9) (2017), Headlong Flight (TNG) (2017). Also The Autobiography of Mr. Spock and Jean-Luc Picard, and the three Prometheus novels (which Amazon would just have to put on sale).
— David Young
Now, after adding these to my spreadsheet, I further tinkered with the data there, primarily putting “N/A”s by all of the individual enovellas in my “Print Copies” column, adding in the print omnibus editions for just the ones that put enovellas in print (I didn’t add listings for the omnibus editions that collected together already in print novels like Odyssey or Twist of Fate), and putting “N/A”s also in the ebooks column for those that have never been released in ebook format (mainly nearly all of the young adult novels but also the first three Shatnerverse novels (The Ashes of Eden, The Return, Avenger), Enterprise: The First Adventure, Probe, Cybersong, and both the 1997 Starfleet Academy computer game and Day of Honor tv episode novelizations. (I may have missed a few but I think that’s just about all of them.)
This tinkering has resulted in new total numbers (so I want to update them here for the record, especially after Koric just deemed my last figure of Star Trek ebooks as “the official count”. Please, no. “Unofficial”, at best. And still not exactly correct, I’m sure.
Initial qualifying info: Star Trek novels in print figures does not include Bantam or Ballantine releases (so none of the Blish or Foster novelizations and none of the pre Pocket Books Bantam novels), nor does it include nonfiction books or children’s books aside from the “Minstrel” Starfleet Academy and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine young adult novels from 1993 to 1998. It does include the three Prometheus novels and the “Autobiography of…” (Kirk, Spock, Picard, Janeway) fiction books. (My base overall list was one I coopted from the internet and whoever made it, this is what was already there.) And, again, it does not include the individual enovellas, but it does include the print omnibus versions of (only) those.
My ebooks figures includes everything starting with Pocket Books (again, no Bantams or Ballantines), including the Prometheus and “Autobiography” books, and also includes the SCE/COE omnibuses (and also the Mere Anarchy omnibus) because those are available also in ebook. (But, again, not ebooks of other omnibuses like Odyssey, Twist of Fate, etc.)
So, my revised tallies:
I now have 431 out of 659 print Star Trek novels/fiction books (from the Pocket Books start onwards), which is 65%.
I now have 190 out of 727 Kindle ebook Star Trek novels/novellas/fiction books, which is 26%.
By my best calculations, I am currently at 199 out of 749 Star Trek novels or novellas that I do not have in either print or Kindle ebook format, which is 27%. (I included in this tally some novels that I know I bough back in 2004 to 2007, some I even have Amazon and other retailer records of having bought back then, but that have somehow disappeared into the void and are currently MIA. If I find those, I’ll make the appropriate updates.)
Just for funsies, here are the ten (make that eleven, since it gets me back to the start of 2017) most recent novels (not including The High Country and Somewhere to Belong because those two just came out) that I need ebooks of still (so that haven’t been in any recent monthly sales): To Lose the Earth (VOY) (2020), The Unsettling Stars (Kelvin) (2020), Architects of Infinity (VOY) (2018), Gamma: Original Sin (DS9) (2017), Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference (ENT) (2017), Engima Tales (DS9) (2017), Hearts and Minds (TNG) (2017), Section 31: Control (2017), The Long Mirage (DS9) (2017), Headlong Flight (TNG) (2017). Also The Autobiography of Mr. Spock and Jean-Luc Picard, and the three Prometheus novels (which Amazon would just have to put on sale).
— David Young
Thanks @youngtrek for that great post. So is 727 the official count total for all of the Trek ebooks you can buy on Amazon for example?
Thanks again.
-Koric
Thanks again.
-Koric
Unofficial. Anything from me is unofficial (and subject to further tweaking). For instance, I’m assuming that if I already have a Star Trek novel in Kindle format that it’s still available on Amazon in that format right now (but I’m definitely not going back and checking them all regularly).
But, yeah, I figure that should be a good solid ballpark. (Well, as I said before, not including some of the omnibus volumes like Twist of Fate, Shatner’s Odyssey omnibus of his first three novels, and those “Signature Series” omnis, at least some of which are also available on Kindle.)
David Young